different between practitioner vs participant

English

Etymology

Formerly practicioner for *practicianer, from practician + -er (the suffix unnecessarily added, as in musicianer).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p?æk?t???n?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p?æk?t???n??/

Noun

practitioner (plural practitioners)

1. A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.
2. One who does anything customarily or habitually.
3. (dated) A sly or artful person.
   • c. 1572, John Whitgift, Admonition to the Parliament

     […] the men of St. John's were cunning practitioners, in shaking off their Masters and Heads.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• practitioner at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French participant, from Latin particip?ns, present participle of particip?; see participate.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p???t?s?p?nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p????t?s?p?nt/, /p???t?s?p?nt/

Noun

participant (plural participants)

1. One who participates.

Synonyms

• entrant, partaker, participator

Translations

Adjective

participant (not comparable)

1. Sharing; participating; having a share of part.

   • Therefore during the parliament he published his royal proclamation, offering pardon and grace of restitution to all such as had taken arms, or been participant of any attempts against him;

Further reading

• participant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• participant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• participant at OneLook Dictionary Search

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /p??.ti.si?pant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /p?r.ti.si?pan/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /pa?.ti.si?pant/

Noun

participant m or f (plural participants)

1. participant

Verb

participant

1. present participle of participar

Further reading

• “participant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “participant” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “participant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “participant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Noun

participant m (plural participants, feminine participante)

1. participant

Verb

participant

1. present participle of participer

Further reading

• “participant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

participant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of particip?

Occitan

Noun

participant m or f (plural participants)

1. participant

Related terms

• participar

Romanian

Etymology

From French participant

Noun

participant m (plural participan?i)

1. participant

Declension